Colorful Paper Crabs Craft

Summer crafts should be fun and easy and this colorful paper crabs craft is just that. Make the paper circles, and crabs out of smaller circles. Or even make the background circle a sun.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids

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Crabs are so fun to observe. Tiny little creatures on the beach, walking funnily.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids

They clean their bodies and just enjoy resting on the sun.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids to Make

And if one crab wants to invade another crab’s territory, they have a little fight.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids

To make sure there are no fights between our crabs, we’re giving each of then their own safe space – a circle.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids to Make

If you love crabs as much as we do, you will find this project amusing for sure.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids

Plus, these crabs can’t pinch like real ones, they are completely harmless.

How to Make Colorful Paper Crabs Craft

 

What you need:

  • circle puncher
  • scissors
  • glue
  • googly eyes
  • black liner
  • color papers
  • circle object

Materials Used

Let’s craft!

Step by Step Instructions

Punch one circle using the circle puncher. We used blue color paper for this crab.

Step 1
Fold that circle in half.

Step 2
Draw a smiling mouth using the black liner.

Step 3
Cut out two thin stripes.

Step 4
Apply some glue on the back of the stripes and glue them on the folded circle.

Step 5
Attach the googly eyes on.

Step 6
Draw a circle on the other color paper. We used a yellow one.

Step 7

Cut out that circle using scissors.

Step 8Glue the crab on the yellow circle.

Step 9
Draw legs and chelipeds on the yellow circle using the black liner.

Step 10
Draw two cheliped claws on the color paper that you used for the crab.

Step 11
Cut out those claws.

Step 12
Glue the claws on the yellow circle.

Step 13

All done!

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids to Make
Hope you like this crab project.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids

Make as many as you like.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids to Make

You can check more crab projects we offer here on Easy Peasy and Fun website if you want to.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids

We bet you will find them interesting.

Colorful Paper Crabs Craft for Kids to Make

Stay tuned for more crafts!

Colorful Paper Crabs Summer Craft Idea

Project contributed by Ema.

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